Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (7 page)

The threesome sit at a table bearing NEWT’S mismatched crockery, the atmosphere tainted by TINA’S absence. QUEENIE’S case lies open on the sofa.

QUEENIE

Tina and I aren’t talking.

NEWT

Why?

JACOB’S POV—pink and hazy, as though happily drunk.

QUEENIE

Oh well, you know, she found out about Jacob and I seeing each other and she didn’t like it, ’cause of the “law.”

(miming quotation marks)

Not allowed to date No-Majs, not allowed to marry them. Blah, blah, blah. Well, she was all in a tizzy anyway, ’cause of you.

NEWT

Me?

QUEENIE

Yeah, you, Newt. It was inSpellbound. Here—I brought it for you—

She points her wand at her suitcase. A celebrity magazine zooms to her:Spellbound: Celebrity Secrets and Spell Tips of the Stars!On the cover, an idealized NEWTand an improbably beaming Niffler.BEAST TAMER NEWT TO WED!

QUEENIE opens the magazine. THESEUS, LETA, NEWT, and BUNTY stand side by side at his book launch.

JACOB reacts as though to a bucket of cold water. He comes back to himself and takes in his surroundings. He looks at NEWT.

NEWT

Congratulations on your engagement, Jacob.

JACOB

Wait, what?

NEWT looks at QUEENIE.

JACOB

Oh no.

He realizes he has been taken against his will. Slowly, he gets to his feet to face QUEENIE.

She reads his mind. With a sob, she runs to close her case (several small objects, including a lipstick and a fragment of torn postcard, fall out) and flees theapartment.

JACOB

Queenie!

(turning to NEWT)

It’s very nice to see you. Where the hell am I right now?

NEWT

Uh, uh, London.

JACOB

(frustrated)

Oh! I always wanted to go here!

(angry)

Queenie!

He runs after her.

SCENE 37

EXT. NEWT’S STREET—A MINUTE LATER—NIGHT

QUEENIE dashes out of NEWT’S house and off up the street, crying. JACOB runs after her, livid.

JACOB

Queen, honey. Well, I’m just curious, when were you going to wake me up? After we’d had five kids?

QUEENIE turns to confront JACOB.

QUEENIE

Why is it wrong to want to marry you?

JACOB

Okay—

QUEENIE

To wanna have a family? I just want what everyone else has, that’s all.

JACOB

Okay, wait. We talked about this, like, a million times. If we get married and they find out, they’re gonna throw you in jail, sweetheart. I can’t have that. Theydon’t like people like me marrying people like you. I ain’t a wizard. I’m just me.

QUEENIE

They’re really progressive here, and they’ll let us get married properly.

QUEENIE gestures to the street.

JACOB

Sweetheart, you don’t need to enchant me. I’m already enchanted! I love you so much.

QUEENIE

Yeah?

JACOB

Yeah. But I can’t have you risking everything like this, you know? You’re not giving us a choice, sweetheart.

QUEENIE

You’re not givin’mea choice. One of us had to be brave, and you were being a coward!

JACOB

I was being a coward? If I’m a coward, you’re a—

She reads his mind.

QUEENIE

—crazy!

She reacts. He knows she “heard” him.

JACOB

I didn’t say it . . .

QUEENIE

You didn’t have to.

JACOB

No, I didn’t mean it, sweetheart.

QUEENIE

Yeah, you did.

JACOB

No.

QUEENIE

I’m gonna go see my sister.

JACOB

Fine. See your sister.

QUEENIE

Fine.

QUEENIE Disapparates.

JACOB

No, wait! No! Queenie! I didn’t mean it. I didn’t say nothing.

But he is alone in the street.

SCENE 38

INT. NEWT’S HOUSE—SHORTLY AFTER—NIGHT

NEWT’S miserable gaze falls on the piece of postcard. He crosses to pick it up, then points his wand at it.

NEWT

Papyrus Reparo.

It reconstitutes into a whole. We see a picture of Paris.

Postcard text becomes visible onscreen.

TINA (V.O.)

My dear Queenie,

What a beautiful city.

I’m thinking of you,

Tina X

SCENE 39

INT. NEWT’S BASEMENT MENAGERIE—NIGHT

CLOSE ON JACOB as he enters, pushes open the door, stares around. Soaked through, he has been searching the streets for an hour. NEWT is nowhere to be seen.

JACOB

Hey, Newt?

NEWT (O.S.)

Down here, Jacob. I’ll be with you in a second.

JACOB starts peering into the enclosure. By the patch of dark water where the Kelpie lives, NEWT has placed a sign for BUNTY:BUNTY,DON’T TOUCH UNTIL I GET BACK. He walks on.